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LETTERS.

For July, 1731.

VOL. VIII

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BOOKS printed for W. IN N Y S.

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Hilofophical Tranfa&tions, N° 417. for the Montlis of Fanuary and February, 1731.

II. Roma Antique Notitia: Or the Antiquities of Rome, in two Parts. I. A fhort Hiftory of the Rife, Progress, and Decay of the Common wealth. II. A Defeription of the City: An Account of the Religion, Civil Government, and Art of War; with the remarkable Cuftoms and Ceremonies, publick and private; with Cuts of the principal Buildings, &c. To which are prefix'd two Effays concerning the Roman Learning and the Roman Education. By Bazil Kennet of C. C. C. Oxon. The 9th Edit. Svo.

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III. Ars Præfcribendi: five Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea Reformata. Editio Sexta. Per Tho. Fuller, M.D.

IV. Demofthenis Selecta Orationes. Ad Cod. MSS. recenfuit, Textum, Scholiaften, & Verfionem plurimis in Locis caftigavit, Notis infuper illuftravit, Richardus Mounteney, Col. Regal. apud Cantab. Socius. Præfiguntur huic Editioni Obfervationes in Commentarios vulgò Ulpianeos.

V. The English Expofitor improv'd: Being a Compleat Dictionary teaching the Interpretation of the most difficult Words, which are commonly made ufc of in our Language. By J. B. M. D. To which is added, an Index of Common Words, digefted into an Alphabetical Order, to direct the Reader to others more learned, and of the fame Signification with them. And likewife a fhort Nomenclator of the most celebrated Perfons among the Ancients, with Variety of memorable Things: Collected out of the beft of Hiftory, Poetry, Philofophy and Geography. And now carefully revised, corrected, and abundantly augmented; with a new and very large Addition of very useful and fignificant Words. By R. Browne, Author of the English School Reform'd. The fourteenth Edition.

A TABLE of the ARTICLES

For JULY 1731.

HE German Hiftory to the Foundation of the Monarchy of the Franks. Alfo a general and particular Hiftory of Germany, &c. With a Letter,

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II. A Differtation concerning the Hungarian
Nation,
P. 17.

III. The Sacred Clafficks Defended and Illuftrated. The fecond and laft Volume, &c. p. 33.

IV. A Vindication of the Miracles of our blessed
Saviour. By the Right Reverend Father in
God, Richard Lord Bishop of Litchfield and
Coventry,
P. 49.

V. The Natural Hiftory of the Coccus or Cochineal, vulgarly call'd the Polish Coccus, p. 65

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THE

PRESENT STATE

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Republick of Letters.

SIR,

For JULY 1731.

ARTICLE I

Leipzick, May 2, 1731.

To the AUTHOR of the Present State of the Republick of Letters.

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General Prejudice conceiv'd against the German Language, and confequently Writers, as well by your Nation, as the French, without deigning to examine upon what Grounds it is founded, is, I prefume, the Reason why fo few Tranflations out of it appear in the English Tongue, and that fo little mention has been made of the Productions of our Nation in your Journal; and not, I hope, a want of Authors worthy of that Regard.

JULY 1731.

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